Word: gospeller
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...television audience, tuned in to the fourth airing of the Emmy award-winning animated television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the popularity of which confounded network executives who had predicted that its cartoon format, melancholy jazz score by Vincent Guaraldi and simple retelling of the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke would alienate the public. That same night, a musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," was playing to sold-out houses in its second season on Broadway; and a feature-length animated film, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," was setting attendance records at Radio City Music Hall...
...rarely mentioned his connection to the president and told Bill to stay home. I can see why Al would initially want to create this distance, but come crunch time in the fall, Al should have campaigned with Bill on the issues and sent Bill out to preach the gospel of Al. Doesn't the Tennessean realize that if the Rhodes scholar were to run again, he would easily defeat his veep and W.? The most successful politician qua politician of our day, Bill still gets 60 percent approval ratings, as if the Gallup Poll keeps on questioning the same pool...
...five-member band different from the previous two. Songs from their newest disc, Blender, were mixed among numerous hit singles from their previous four albums, including the "The World I Know" and "December." Roland ended by telling the audience he wanted to play for them a little gospel song he wrote, and then thrilled the audience with "Shine," the hit single off Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid. An encore cover performance of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" ended things on a much louder note, and left a raucous audience fighting for Santa hats from the WBCN deejays immediately outside...
...shepherd's heart to wounded women, and they lined up by the thousands." At least 2 million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed. Jakes, a regular on two TV networks (TBN and BET), has generated a stream of other novel gambits. He has cut a Grammy-nominated gospel album, beamed his sermons by satellite into prisons in 15 states and built a $32 million megachurch in a depressed part of Dallas. Al Gore, Pat Robertson and Coretta Scott King are among his fans. George W. Bush calls Jakes' social programs models for a church-state partnership...
Dressed in familiar baggy jeans and a baseball cap, corporate CEO Darien Dash is preaching the gospel of the Web to a crowd of teens at the Alexander Hamilton housing projects in Paterson, N.J. Knowing that for many of these kids the closest model of financial success is the local drug dealer, this 29-year-old dotcom entrepreneur speaks to them in language he knows they understand. "The new hustle," declares Dash, "is technology...